Oversiktslitteratur (kompendium)
• Jan Golinski, Making natural knowledge: Constructivism and the history of science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998. (236 s.)
• Steven Shapin, “Discipline and bounding: “The history and sociology of science as seen through the externalism-internalism debate”, History of Science 30 (1992), 333-369 (36 s)
Originalverk
• Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd ed, University of Chicago Press, Chicago og London (1962) 1996 (210 s)
• Robert K. Merton, Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England, Howard Fertig, New York, (1938) 2001 (287 s).
Originaltekster (kompendium)
• David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, 2nd ed, Chicago University Press, Chicago (1976) 1991. Kap. 1 (21 s)
• Boris Hessen, “The social and economic roots of Newton’s Principia”, I Science at the Crossroads, London (1931) 1971 (61 s)
• Imre Lakatos, “History of science and its rational reconstructions”, i Roger C. Buck & Roger S. Cohen (eds.), Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science 8 (1971), s. 91-136 (45 s)
• Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia, Routledge (1936) 1968. Kapittel 2 (53 s)
• Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Routledge (1959) 2002. Kap. 1-2 (32 s)
• Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1985. Kap.1-2 (77 s)
• Edgar Zilsel, “The genesis of the concept of scientific progress”, Journal of the History of Ideas 6 (1945), s. 325-349 (24 s)
Anbefalt litteratur
• Vidar Enebakk, Vitenskapsstudier: Historie, teori, kritikk, Unipub forlag 2008
• Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution, Chicago University Press, Chicago 1996
• Gary Werskey, The Visible College: A collective biography of British scientists and socialists of the 1930s, Allen Lane, London 1978